<< Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work on data conversion. A given process may create 3-5 temporary tables and load them with data from external files. One thing I found is that RBG76EE had a tendency to show difficulties if I attempted to LOAD tablename FROM filename AS CSV. The process would appear to be hung, but Task Manager showed it to be active, consuming lots of CPU. I could look at the temporary files and see them growing by leaps and bounds. And this was while attempting to load a relatively small CSV file. The inconsistency of this is that not every instance where I attempted the LOAD … AS CSV would fail. I examined the data in the CSV in detail and verified that it was all correctly formatted. >>
I have to say that sure _sounds_ like R:Base is looking for the old DOS EOF character and some of your CSV files don't contain one while others do. If you simply edit the file in RBDOS and save it out again so that the EOF is guaranteed there, does that fix your problem? -- Larry
